> With only one level, there’s nothing to worry about. With only two levels, a boss and those who report to the boss, the boss has skin in the game, no boss causing problems for them, and not enough reason to reward bad outcomes. With three levels, there are middle managers in the second layer, so one should be wary.
Based on this wording, it seems like the CEO and the people under the line managers count as levels (levels though maybe not levels of middle management). By that reasoning, this structure would indeed be 6 layers.
In reality, it varies by division if you are in a large company. If you join at the bottom of the legal department at Google, you probably have fewer layers above you than if you are a junior dev working on android.
> With only one level, there’s nothing to worry about. With only two levels, a boss and those who report to the boss, the boss has skin in the game, no boss causing problems for them, and not enough reason to reward bad outcomes. With three levels, there are middle managers in the second layer, so one should be wary.
Based on this wording, it seems like the CEO and the people under the line managers count as levels (levels though maybe not levels of middle management). By that reasoning, this structure would indeed be 6 layers.
In reality, it varies by division if you are in a large company. If you join at the bottom of the legal department at Google, you probably have fewer layers above you than if you are a junior dev working on android.